> Now, let's unpack what people mean by "hard" skills. Do you mean they are difficult to learn? Do you mean they are useful in today and tomorrow's economy? Wha

> Now, let's unpack what people mean by "hard" skills. Do you mean they are difficult to learn? Do you mean they are useful in today and tomorrow's economy? What exactly does the hard in hard skill mean. Hard skills are what is the scientific core of your degree course or PhD program. So knowledge about theoretical physics of you study physics or do your PhD in it. Knowledge of mathematics and ability to do hard proofs for mathematics. For computer science, the situation is more subtle: Here the hard skill is knowledge of computer science, being able to understand papers about this topic (degree course) or doing research (PhD program). In this sense, I would consider programming knowledge as a (central!) soft skill of a CS program.